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GOP amendment would bring nationwide ban on LGBTQ adoption

The national Republican Party may vote on an amended measure that would bar all gay, lesbian, and other community members from adopting children. The Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives ...

Final efforts to pass anti-LGBTQ adoption bill fail as Georgia legislative session ends

Last-ditch efforts to pass an anti-LGBTQ adoption bill failed on the final day of the 2018 Georgia legislative session on Thursday, and for the fifth straight year, the session ended with the state avoiding pas...

Stacey Abrams: Anti-LGBTQ adoption bill ‘harms Georgia’s most vulnerable children’

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has come out against an anti-LGBTQ adoption bill that passed out of committee Tuesday morning and will hit the Senate floor for a vote any day now. Senate Bill 3...

Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle vows to sign 'religious freedom' measure.

Cagle: Pass adoption bill without ‘religious freedom’ measure

Georgia’s Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle doesn’t want the issue of adoption to turn into a discussion on so-called “religious freedom.” “I don’t want us to get caught up in a religious liberty debate on the adoption b...

Property fathers: Atlanta gay couple flips houses to fund adoptions

Atlanta residents Josh and Joey Bolton-Rogers are now fathers of two children. But due to the cost of adoption, their family wouldn’t have been able to be completed without some extra income. “We just became...

Shannon Hames: On living life with intention

You know me well enough by now to know that I write about whatever seems to be a reoccurring theme in my life at the time. I think about something, then a friend brings it up, then something happens that makes ...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, July 19

1. Brigham Young University-Idaho fired a professor after she wrote a pro-LGBT statement on her personal Facebook page and refused to take it down. 2. The Atlantic explores the effects inclusive sex educatio...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, June 20

1. Six people resigned from the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS last week, claiming the Trump administration has no strategy in place to handle the ongoing HIV epidemic, and the administration looks t...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, June 19

1. Vladimir Putin decided it's his God-given duty to stop same-sex marriage so that more babies can be born. He's also against gay adoption. 2. For the first time ever, Iceland selected a transwoman to be it...

6th District Congressional candidate Karen Handel against gay adoption.

Karen Handel: ‘My faith calls me to a different place’ on gay adoption

6th Congressional District candidate Karen Handel appears to be doubling down on her much publicized 2010 comments on gay adoption, telling both a Reporter Newspapers writer and the mother of an LGBT child that...

Atlanta LGBT families rally around ‘ally’ Democrat Jon Ossoff at meet-and-greet

Jon Ossoff entered the home of Roswell couple Matt and Barry Levesque on June 9 to a cheering crowd, with parents and children of all ages running up to meet him. Ossoff, the Democratic candidate running to ...

A time of reckoning: Atlanta's LGBTQ community addresses racism problem

Biden, Harris Inauguration Events Mostly Virtual

Trump Administration Allows LGBTQ Discrimination with New HHS Rule

LGBTQ Trump Supporters Tiptoe Away from President after U.S. Capitol Attack

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

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The Year in LGBTQ Cinema

Tamisha Iman and LaLa Ri Represent Atlanta on “Drag Race” Season 13